Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26045423-20180927153931/@comment-6769189-20180930223113

1) for nostalgia

2) they probably didnt want to make players feel like they wouldnt have access to the moveset by making Sparda and Rebellion have different movesets. IMO quad switching would be awkward as fuck. Probably why Balrog has 2 different modes to switch between. Tangent: Balrog should have switched modes with Style instead of Lock-On+Back+Melee, it would have had more moves like that.

Back to Sparda, IMO i think the best case scenario is that it has higher stats and stronger DT. Worst case, its a skin.